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The Wall

It took several trips to the hardware store and more than a little sweat and muscle to get all the sheets of plyboard into my dodge caravan and then to my backyard fence. My mock orange hedge fronting the fence was always a good thing, but now it had become a bad thing. I had to squeeze each board behind the bushes and each thrust was paid for with skin and blood where the branches cut into my arms. I was determined though, to silence the radio that was playing without fail each day. How come this guy never watched TV? It would be a welcome break from the hits of the 80s’ over and over again. I couldn’t change who my neighbors rented their rooms to, but I could control my side of the fence.
When it was finished I could still hear the music, but somehow it seemed better knowing that we didn’t have to look at each other from his window to my patio. I could even hear his phone conversations . . . this last one I heard, “. . . do you know what it’s like to be blind?”

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Pass On, No Pass Back!ISBN: 0-910043-19-1Darrell Lum's signature pidgin narratives dominate this nine-story collection, which also includes standard English stories and comic strip illustrations. Endearing and insightful, Lum's characters tell stories of initiation, family, wonder and community. In PASS ON, NO PASS BACK!, "community is not defined by delineating boundaries, but by moving the center outwards to include what has traditionally been defined as marginal. Lum's is a vision of the possibility once expressed by Derek Walcott that 'the highest expression of culture is a total acceptance of every human being.'" -- The Mid-American Review
Winner of the 1992 Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award and the 1991 Elliot Cades Award for Literature.